Aristocracy
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‘A title is really rather a nuisance in these democratic days. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want.’
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Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Earls and Dukes are people you used to read about before pop stars and footballers were invented.
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When I want peerage I shall buy it like an honest man.
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This is the only place in the country where they pay you to have lunch.
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way but in fact it is dead.